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Silicon Valley exposed, the return of a forensic specialist
and a book explainingwhywe likewhatwe like are some of
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
Tom Vanderbilt
Published: Random House
Why do we get so embarrassed when a colleague wears the same shirt? Why do
we eat the same thing for breakfast every day, but seek out novelty at lunch and
dinner? How has streaming changed the way Netflix makes recommendations?
Why do people think the music of their youth is the best? How can you spot a fake
review on Yelp?
Our preferences and opinions are constantly being shaped by countless forces –es-
pecially in the digital agewith its nonstop procession of “thumbs up” and “likes” and
“stars.” TomVanderbilt, bestselling author of Traffic, explains whywe like the things
we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what all this tell us about ourselves.
With a voracious curiosity, Vanderbilt stalks the elusive beast of taste, probing
research in psychology, marketing, and neuroscience to answer myriad complex
and fascinating questions.
Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel
Patricia Cornwell
Published: Harpercollins US
Dr. Kay Scarpetta isworking a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts
when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text mes-
sages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It
is clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.
As Scarpetta watches she begins to learn frightening secrets about her niece,
whom she has loved and raised like a daughter. That film clip and then others sent
soon after raise dangerous legal implications that increasingly isolate Scarpetta
and leave her confused, worried, and not knowing where to turn. She doesn’t know
whomshe can tell – not her FBI husband BentonWesley or her investigative partner
Pete Marino. Not even Lucy.
In this newnovel, Cornwell launches these unforgettable characters on an intensely
psychological odyssey that includes the mysterious death of a Hollywood mogul’s
daughter, aircraft wreckage on the bottom of the sea in the Bermuda Triangle, a
grisly gift left in the back of a crime scene truck, and videos from the past that
threaten to destroy Scarpetta’s entire world and everyone she loves.
The diabolical presence behind what unfolds seems obvious – but strangely, not to
the FBI. Certainly that’s the message they send when they raid Lucy’s estate and
begin building a case that could send her to prison for the rest of her life.